Comparative historical dialectology : Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change / / Thomas D. Cravens
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| Autore: |
Cravens Thomas D
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| Titolo: |
Comparative historical dialectology : Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change / / Thomas D. Cravens
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub., , 2002 |
| ©2002 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 163 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 440/.0415 |
| Soggetto topico: | Romance languages - Phonology, Historical |
| Romance languages - Phonology, Comparative | |
| Romance languages - Voice | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL DIALECTO LOGY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2.SUBSTRATUM; CHAPTER 3. CRUCIAL INGREDIENTS: INTERVOCALIC VOICING IN LATIN, ASSIMILATION AT WORD BOUNDARIES; CHAPTER 4.VOICING IN WESTERN ROMANCE; CHAPTER 5. PALATALIZATION OF WORD-INITIAL /l/ AND /n/ IN IBERO-ROMANCE; CHAPTER 6. LOOSE ENDS: NON-VOICING IN RUMANIA AND THE DIALECTS OF THE PYRENEES, IRREGULAR VOICING IN ITALIAN; CHAPTER 7.CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INDEX OF TERMS AND CONCEPTS; INDEX OF NAMES |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/. These developments have been treated repeatedly over the decades, yet neither has enjoyed a satisfactory solution. This book attempts to demonstrate that both outcomes are ultimately attributable to the loss of early pan-Romance consonant gemination.This study is of interest not only to the language-specific field of historical Romance linguistics, but also to general historical |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Comparative historical dialectology |
| ISBN: | 1-283-31215-8 |
| 9786613312150 | |
| 90-272-7539-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812110203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. : Series IV, . -Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; 231.